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Unidentified flying object

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Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified. Both military and civilian research show that a significant majority of UFO sightings have been identified after further investigation, either explicitly or indirectly through the presence of clear and simple explanatory factors.

On their first encounter the friends were told: “This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.”
The whole purpose of the cover up by the military and economic interests is to maintain their control over society. I mean, as soon as the general populace would know about alternative ways of living, of relating, ways that are not based on competition and greed for fear of ‘the other’, but rather on empathy, sharing and justice for all, I am sure that would spell the end for the existing powers. Until now people have been led to believe that the only way to survive in this world is to fend for yourself, your own community, your own country. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and the space people are living proof that there are other, more viable and more peaceful ways of living together as one human race. ~ Gerard Aartsen
The principle of spacecraft becoming visible by lowering the rate of vibration of their atoms, or disappearing from our sight when they return to their original state, is really not very difficult to understand... If a bicycle wheel turns rapidly, you can’t see the spokes... ~ Gerard Aartsen
*Ever since the cliché ‘Flying Saucer’ was coined, the greatest and most exciting mystery of our age has been automatically reduced to the level of a music hall joke. The comics of Vaudeville and the comedians of State and Science banded together, most successfully, to encourage humanity in its oldest and easiest method of escape—to laugh at what it does not understand. ~ Desmond Leslie & George Adamski
As I approached him... He made me understand that their coming was friendly... that they were concerned with the radiation going out from earth. I asked if this concern was due to the explosions of our bombs with their resultant vast radio-active clouds? He understood this readily and nodded his head in the affirmative. ~George Adamski
I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time. ~ Winston Churchill
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… The veil of secrecy must be lifted... before it is too late. ~ Paul Hellyer
They are very much afraid we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again and that would be very bad for us and them as well... We are polluting our waters and our air, and we are playing around with these exotic weapons… and they don't like that. They'd like to work with us to teach us better ways, but only, I think, with our consent. ~ Paul Hellyer
I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so....I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know.., yes - we have been visited... it's been happening quite a bit. ~ Edgar Mitchell
Unknown aerial objects have in fact been observed over many of our nuclear weapons bases and other nuclear facilities, and in some cases the appearance of these objects coincided with compromising the operational readiness of our nuclear weapons… If they wanted to destroy them, with all the powers they seem to have, they could have done that job. So I personally don’t think that it was a hostile intent. ~ Robert Salas, US Air Force Captain (Ret.)
The common thread weaving among them of breathtaking alterations in consciousness associated with the experiences -- sensations of leaving the body, of flying through the air or being "carried along by the wind," and receiving "startling and novel insights into the nature of reality" that reverberated thereafter with profound, life-changing effects. ~ Susan M. Watkins

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  • Not long before his death, the prominent Italian psychologist and theologian Bruno Sammaciccia decided to disclose his experiences with a group of Space People, which started in 1956 and continued into the late 1970s... Bruno Sammaciccia’s fascinating account of what was to be a long-term, large-scale case of contact with the Space People was recently documented by the author Stefano Breccia, who included it in his book Mass Contacts, first published in Italian in 2006. Sammaciccia’s story gives many details and captures brilliantly the different characters of some of the people involved…. On their first encounter the friends were told: “This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.” And in response to concerns about their strongly ethical perspective on life compared to that of humans: “Our goodness and truth will be stronger than human doubts.”
    • Gerard Aartsen in The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood, Share International (2011)
  • In confirmation of Benjamin Creme’s insistence that the Space Visitors are utterly harmless, author Stefano Breccia, who had some encounters of his own, says in the documentary based on Sammaciccia’s account: "They said they were incapable of causing harm to anyone. Even their devices [which were consciously impregnated with their sense of ethics and morality] would refuse to harm anyone. Indeed, they said if they weren’t able to avoid hurting someone, then in that case they would self-destruct."
    • Gerard Aartsen, The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood, Share International (2011)
  • Sammaciccia’s story gives many details and captures brilliantly the different characters of some of the people involved…. On their first encounter the friends were told: “This is a critical time in human history. We are not here to conquer, because there is nothing to conquer. We have been on Earth for many centuries, living in secret bases around the planet.” And in response to concerns about their strongly ethical perspective on life compared to that of humans: “Our goodness and truth will be stronger than human doubts.”
    • Gerard Aartsen, The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood, Share International (2011)
  • The Space Brothers are the people from other planets in our solar system who come to Earth to assist us, not just humanity as a whole, but our elder brothers, the Masters of Wisdom in a major transition in consciousness, a realization or reawakening to the spiritual realities of life, to our real spiritual nature that we have lost sight of.
    I am aware that there are many reports of people who claim to be in contact with people from outer space. A lot of people say that they come from out of this solar system because our science tells us the other planets in our system are uninhabited and even uninhabitable. According to the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, and this is the background from which I speak and write, life is universal. You cannot go anywhere where there is no life because life is the underlying principle of everything that exists. It’s just that because we are so conditioned by life on the solid physical plane, and we do not have etheric vision, which is the ability to see the higher planes material reality above the dense physical, liquid and gaseous physical, that we take for granted that other planets are uninhabited. So most contactees say the space people in the UFOs must be from out of the solar system. However, based on my study and research of the Ageless Wisdom, I believe that the Space Brothers are from within our solar system.
  • In all the serious cases of contacts with space people that I have researched, some historical, some more recent, they are seen as morally far advanced compared to ourselves, working and living according to the highest ethical standards. This was reported not only by the early contactees of the 1950s, but also by the people in the Friendship case in Italy and South America, more recent contactees such as Giorgio Dibitonto from Italy and Carlos Diaz from Mexico, as well as by high-profile individuals who have testified about their encounters. When you look at it closely, it is astounding to find so many people talking about the goodness and wisdom of the people from space.
  • The whole purpose of the cover up by the military and economic interests is to maintain their control over society. I mean, as soon as the general populace would know about alternative ways of living, of relating, ways that are not based on competition and greed for fear of ‘the other’, but rather on empathy, sharing and justice for all, I am sure that would spell the end for the existing powers. Until now people have been led to believe that the only way to survive in this world is to fend for yourself, your own community, your own country. But it doesn’t have to be that way, and the space people are living proof that there are other, more viable and more peaceful ways of living together as one human race.
  • Today, the American Government has dropped its original attitude of disbelief and admitted that it has over eighteen hundred authentic cases on its files. The British Air Ministry is more cautious, but grudgingly admits that it also has a secret department to deal with or to discourage questions... The American Government, however... hints that it is not in the public interest for it to publish all it knows... Ever since the cliché ‘Flying Saucer’ was coined, the greatest and most exciting mystery of our age has been automatically reduced to the level of a music hall joke. The comics of Vaudeville and the comedians of State and Science banded together, most successfully, to encourage humanity... to laugh at what it does not understand... From then on, anyone who said ‘I have seen a flying saucer’ or, worse, ‘I believe in flying saucers’ was considered... a crank.
  • Despite evidence to the contrary (and there is enough of it to fill many volumes), there is still a widespread notion...that flying saucers are some kind of American joke... that the mystery has already been cleared up... we can thank those semi-scientists and self-appointed ‘experts’ who have simply failed to study the facts. Too many glib pontifications have been issued to the faithful by those who should know better... to say... that they cover all the cases on record is a flagrant untruth for which a Higher Justice may, or may not forgive them.... Although I quote less than two hundred incidents, these have been selected from nearly two thousand cuttings, reports, articles, manuscripts and ancient documents supplied to me by kind helpers from many countries...
  • A red glow in the clouds over Godman Field, Kentucky—a disk the size of the Pentagon, lurking, silently, above a fighter base—a construction dwarfing the Queen Mary [British ocean liner...1,019.4 ft (310.7 m)] supported by dull orange flames that lit up the cloud base and caused Captain Mantell, of the U.S.A.A.F., to be dispatched in his tiny pursuit plane to investigate. When Mantell found it, his voice came over the radio, full of excitement. It was immense, he said, a colossal metallic thing, 500-1,000 feet in diameter, and cruising at 250 m.p.h. He was going to try to overtake it... the giant began climbing at 400 m.p.h. It accelerated faster than any jet, and Mantell went streaking up in pursuit...
  • Ex Cathedra spoke Authority. First, Mantell had been ‘chasing the planet Venus’. Will some kind illusionist kindly explain how the planet Venus could appear as a disk 500 feet across, going at 200 m.p.h.; afterwards climbing rapidly and emitting orange flames? Later, we read of a new official explanation, that Mantell had hit a ‘Skyhook’ meteorological balloon and crashed.... Well, say he had? Would it tear his plane to pieces? I am quite willing, for anyone who will pay my expenses, to pilot a fighter plane through a Skyhook balloon any time of the day or night and observe the results, without very much fear of hurting myself. But when has a Skyhook ever cruised along at 250 m.p.h., or risen sharply at 400 m.p.h., with orange flames, etc., etc., into the bargain? But officially Mantell had chased the planet Venus, metamorphosed later into a Skyhook balloon, and thus, alas, met his death...
  • As I approached him... He made me understand that their coming was friendly. Also, as he gestured, that they were concerned with the radiation going out from earth. I asked if this concern was due to the explosions of our bombs with their resultant vast radio-active clouds? He understood this readily and nodded his head in the affirmative.
  • The idea is that the citizens of each nation, through these efforts, will grow into closer united friendship with their countrymen, without discrimination or divisions of any kind. In time it is hoped that these national efforts will overflow into worldwide understanding and friendship.
    • George Adamski, quoted in Gerard Aartsen's The Friendship Case: Space Brothers teach lessons of brotherhood, Share International (2011)
  • People are gradually beginning to realize that these sightings are not bunk. I thought it was bunk until I saw one … Now don't tell me I had been drinking tequila, or that I was seeing spots before my eyes! … you did not offer any explanation for the saucers. Thus far, there certainly is no adequate explanation. All I can say is that if one ever actually sees one, he has seen the most awe-inspiring, strange and unaccountable sight that he'll ever see in his lifetime. … Space does not permit me to go into detail as to why the object was not a balloon, a kite, a plane, or some such object. … I have lost so much sleep thinking about the contraption, I wish I had never seen the darn thing in the first place.
  • It is with considerable disappointment you cannot give the explanation of these aircraft as I felt certain they belonged to our government. They have apparently meant no harm, but used as an instrument of destruction in combination with our atomic bomb the effects could destroy life on our planet. ... We have not taken this lightly. It is to us of very serious concern, as we are as interested in the welfare of our country as you are.
  • If our government knows anything about these devices, the people should be told at once. A lot of people out here are very much disturbed. Some think these things may be from another planet. But they aren't harming anyone and I think it would be the wrong thing to shoot one of them down – even if it can be done. Their high speed would completely wreck them.
    • Kenneth Arnold in telephonic conversation with Henry Heil of the Chicago Times, as quoted by in 'Flying discs' called real by 2 air veterans, Chicago Times (7 July 1947)
  • … well, right here we’ve seen something, I’ve seen something, hundreds of pilots have seen something … in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem … seriously? Well this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or people from Venus or anything as far as I am concerned.
  • The (British) government took the threat of UFOs so seriously in the 1950s that UK intelligence chiefs met to discuss the issue, newly-released files show... Ministers even went on to commission weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts... the papers also include a wartime account claiming prime minister Winston Churchill ordered a UFO sighting be kept secret to prevent "mass panic"... the latest batch of UFO files released from the Ministry of Defence to the National Archives shows that, in 1957, the committee received reports detailing an average of one UFO sighting a week... The files also include an account of a wartime meeting attended by Winston Churchill in which, it is claimed, the prime minister was so concerned about a reported encounter between a UFO and RAF bombers, that he ordered it be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent "mass panic". Nick Pope, who used to investigate UFO sightings for the MoD, said: "The interesting thing is that most of the UFO files from that period have been destroyed... But what happened is that a scientist whose grandfather was one of his [Churchill's] bodyguards, said look, Churchill and Eisenhower got together to cover up this phenomenal UFO sighting, that was witnessed by an RAF crew on their way back from a bombing raid...The reason apparently was because Churchill believed it would cause mass panic and it would shatter people's religious views.
  • With hundreds of thousands of nebulae, each containing thousands of millions of suns, the odds are enormous that there must be immense numbers which possess planets whose circumstances would not render life impossible... I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.
  • [I wonder whether the work the EO did covering the Arnold sighting may have been the pinnacle of press coverage of the UFO phenomenon, and whether the coverage has been in decline ever since. Today’s press coverage of UFOs is lamentable.] For the life of me, I cannot understand why members of the press are not clamoring for information about the UFO issue. [The disinterest of the press] is even more interesting than the apparent presence on our planet of the UFOs themselves.
  • Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers — because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said "I don't think there are flying saucers'. So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, "Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." It is just more likely. That is all.
  • Anyway, I have to argue about flying saucers on the beach with people, you know. And I was interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.
    • Richard Feynman in The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (1998)
  • Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… The veil of secrecy must be lifted and it has to be lifted now, before it is too late.
    • Paul Hellyer, Minister of Defense, Canada, 1963-1968, Speech at the National Press Club, Washington DC, April 2008
  • (How do you answer UFO skeptics?) I get them to read my books and others; because there’s so much literature on the subject, that it is just amazing. And the skeptics, by large, have never done any reading on it. And it’s just like, take any other subject, physics or something that you are not familiar with, you can be skeptical of some of the rules and things people say if you haven’t taken time out to learn about it.... You have to read the books and get the evidence, and then you can check it out for yourself.
  • There’s all kinds of proof, but only if you know where to look and taken the trouble to go and look... The United States government is the principle villain. Why is a good question, you should ask them, because basically, at a hearing we held a couple of years ago in Washington, the consensus of the witnesses at the hearing, of whom I was one, was that it was power and greed. They cover it up under the cloak of national security, but we all, I think the consensus of all of us who gave evidence there was that it had nothing to do with national security, it was a cover story to keep people from demanding answers, and that the real reasons were power and greed.
  • Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. While we need not give credence to these stories, they allow our imagination to speculate on how visitors from outer space would judge us. I am afraid they would be stupefied at our conduct. They would observe that for death planning we spend billions to create engines and strategies for war. They would also observe that we spend millions to prevent death by disease and other causes. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain.
  • After a couple of years of intense research into eyewitness accounts of dramatic flying saucer sightings and encounters, it started to dawn on me, dimly at first, that science is not a democracy. It doesn’t really matter how many people have reported observations if the observations make no physical sense. We don’t take a vote to see if flying saucer attributes, such as antigravity, force fields, and speeds of thousands of miles per hour in the lower atmosphere, are technically achievable. Such features either exist or they do not, and they are judged on compatibility with existing proofs and the results of confirmatory research. There are many strange and even unbelievable phenomena that have been proven and re-proven to exist in the nuclear physics model of the universe, but the capabilities of your common flying saucer are not in this set.
  • Along with the briefcase with the nuclear codes, the President of the country is given a special ‘top secret’ folder which is entirely devoted to the extra-terrestrials who visited our planet. The report is provided by the special secret service which deals with the extra-terrestrials in our country.
  • I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
  • I've been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it's been happening quite a bit.
  • The origin of Earth-dwelling or -visiting space folk is exclusively limited to our solar system, with the majority being Martians and Venusians. Mars and Venus are the two planets within the solar system most influential for Earth. Mars, like almost every other celestial body in the universe is populated, yet, ordinarily their inhabitants cannot be perceived for they are of etheric matter (in the case of Mars this shift from the dense-physical state occurred some three million years ago). Creme states that Mars is bustling with nine billion people; typical Martians would look like smaller-sized humans. Overall, Mars is spiritually on a par with Earth but technologically tremendously superior because they did not make the many “mistakes” humankind did... Creme divides Martians into three categories of spiritual evolution: those who are like gods to us; those of lesser but still remarkable spiritual progress; and those of very low spiritual quality. Moreover, contrary to humans, Martians are mostly holding fast to the Plan; however, unlike Earth, Mars has hitherto not witnessed the creation of a Christ. Like Earth, Mars is not considered a “sacred planet.” Both are in their fourth round (of a total of seven) in terms of planetary evolution, which renders them lagging behind the other ten [sic] planets of the solar system. (p. 301)
  • Vulcan, the planet closest to the sun, is the most advanced having recently completed its seventh round of planetary evolution and thus transitioned to the highest level etheric matter. Vulcan is also home to the headquarters of the Interplanetary Parliament with its representative being the “most distinguished”... Consisting of envoys of all twelve planets where they are parts of the respective Hierarchies, the Interplanetary Parliament’s objective is to assist each other in pursuing the Plan. Collaborative efforts are fed through emotional links in addition to the fact that all the planets are intertwined energetically. Hence, every single planet affects the other parts of this interplanetary energetic network. Furthermore, the Parliament is connected to an even higher organisational entity, the Galactic Federation of Light, which encompasses civilisations across the universe... Unsurprisingly, our solar system’s Interplanetary Parliament is also in constant contact with other Interplanetary Parliaments, such as, most importantly, that of Sirius. Following Vulcan in terms of planetary evolution and representing altogether the Seven Sacred Planets are Mercury and Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. The non-sacred ones are Mars and Earth, Pluto, the 1977 discovered 2060 Chiron orbiting Pluto and not the Sun [sic], and the 2002 discovered trans-Neptunian Quaoar.
  • Creme explains that etheric matter is tantamount to dark matter, which had already been discovered by Wilhelm Reich. He called it the “orgone.” In this regard, Creme recommends scientists to turn to the esoteric literature such as Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine in lieu of, for example, building cyclotrons worth many billions of pounds... What is more, Creme unveiled that the universe would follow the Big Bounce scenario... so the current scientific mainstream theory of Big Rip/Heat Death would be wrong. According to Creme, spiritual progress generally expresses itself in rarefying matter density be it in people or entire planets; hence, upon completing its seventh evolutionary round Vulcan shifted to the most subtle etheric matter.. In this regard, Creme, for example, confirms Adamski’s famous account in which he reported to have attended a meeting of the Parliament in late March 1962 on Saturn.

An article written by Winston Churchill in 1939, revised during the 1950s but never published, has recently been discovered in the Churchill Museum in the USA: ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ Written on the verge of World War II, with crucial political events to occupy his mind, Churchill’s interest would have been stimulated by the recent notorious US radio version of War of the Worlds (adapted by Orson Welles from the novel by H.G.Wells), that had many panicking that an ‘alien invasion’ was actually taking place. The article was originally written before the period, particularly in the 1950s, of many reports of UFOs and great public interest in the phenomenon.

  • Astrophysicist Mario Livio, the first person to be shown this newly discovered manuscript, points out that Churchill posited the existence of many other suns with families of planets, decades before the actual discovery of extrasolar planets in the 1990s. What impresses Livio about Churchill’s article is how he approached the question of alien life with a ‘scientist’s mind’...although Churchill interestingly posits Mars and Venus as possible hosts for life, he in no way entertains the possibility of etheric matter that can explain the existence of life on planets in our solar system and that underpins the accounts of space people in the writings of Benjamin Creme and George Adamski (borne out by countless sightings and other accounts). All the same, intriguingly, the very fact that he wrote the article might suggest that Churchill, a third-degree initiate, could have had an intuition that life outside our planet can, and indeed – as he himself says – must, exist... In the late 1950s, Churchill revised the article a little, changing the title from its original ‘Are we alone in space?’ to the more specific ‘Are we alone in the Universe?’ By then there had been very many publicized encounters with UFOs and the space people and George Adamski had published his world famous books, Flying Saucers have landed in 1953 and Inside the Space Ships in 1955.
    • Phyllis Power in Winston Churchill and UFOs, Share International], April 2017
  • Hypnotism will become more and more a tool of scientific investigation. Telepathy will be proven without a doubt, and utilized, sadly enough in the beginning, for purposes of war and intrigue. Nevertheless telepathy will enable your race to make its first contact with alien intelligence.
    • Jane Roberts, in The Early Sessions: Book 2, Session 45, Page 21
  • When science progresses on various planes, then such visitations become less accidental and more planned. However, since the inhabitants of each plane are bound by the particular materialized patterns of their 'home,' they bring this pattern of camouflaged vitality with them. Certain kinds of science cannot operate without it. When the inhabitants of a plane have learned mental science patterns, then they are to a great degree freed from the more regular camouflage patterns … the flying saucer appearances come from a system much more advanced in technological sciences than yours.
    So strong is this tendency for vitality to change from one apparent form to another, that what you have here in your flying saucers is something that is actually not of your plane nor of the plane of its origins. What happens is this: When the 'flying saucer' starts out toward its destination, the atoms and molecules that compose it (and which are themselves formed by vitality) are more or less aligned according to the pattern inflicted upon it by its own territory. As it enters your plane, a distortion occurs. The actual structure of the craft is caught in a dilemma of form. It is caught between transforming itself completely into earth's particular camouflage pattern, and retaining its original pattern.
    • Jane Roberts, in Seth, Dreams & Projections of Consciousness, p. 101-102
  • What struck me more than the book's UFO stories, however, was the common thread weaving among them of breathtaking alterations in consciousness associated with the experiences – sensations of leaving the body, of flying through the air or being "carried along by the wind," and receiving "startling and novel insights into the nature of reality" that reverberated thereafter with profound, life-changing effects.
  • (Gardner) writes about various kinds of cranks with the conscious superiority of the scientist, and in most cases one can share his sense of the victory of reason. But after half a dozen chapters this non-stop superiority begins to irritate; you begin to wonder about the standards that make him so certain he is always right. He asserts that the scientist, unlike the crank, does his best to remain open-minded. So how can he be so sure that no sane person has ever seen a flying saucer, or used a dowsing rod to locate water? And that all the people he disagrees with are unbalanced fanatics? A colleague of the positivist philosopher A. J. Ayer once remarked wryly "I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be about everything". Martin Gardner produces the same feeling.
  • These left me in no doubt that something was trying to communicate with us, but that direct communication would be counterproductive. It seemed to be an important part of the scheme to create a sense of mystery.

The Great Approach by Benjamin Creme (2001) edit

 
The (Roswell UFO) crash was not an accident but a deliberate act of sacrifice on the part of each individual in the spaceship... The occupants deliberately... crashed the spaceship, so that we would have the evidence... five spacemen who could be studied and seen to be certainly similar to humans... the evidence — the vehicle and its occupants, because they were really etheric — disintegrated quickly back into the etheric. However, autopsies were carried out on the bodies and there is a film of this, so we have major evidence that this whole UFO question is real. ~ Benjamin Creme
  • All Hierarchies of all the planets in this system are in touch with each other, and everything that takes place in an extraterrestrial sense takes place under Law. All the planets of our system are inhabited, but if you were to go to Mars or Venus you would see nobody because they are in physical bodies of etheric matter, finer, subtler, than gas. If you were to go there and had etheric vision they would be as real to you as they are to each other, but if do not have etheric vision — and the bulk of humanity do not as yet have etheric vision... to all intents and purposes these planets would seem to be uninhabited. p. 133
  • [Mr. Creme was asked: "Was the spacecraft that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 a genuine “alien” craft with aliens as crew?"] The occupants of the spacecraft were coming from Mars. The crash was not an accident but a deliberate act of sacrifice on the part of each individual in the spaceship. Normally those spaceships cannot crash — they are made of etheric matter, so they have no weight, they cannot be destroyed. The occupants deliberately brought down the vibrational rate of the matter into the dense physical and crashed the spaceship, so that we would have the evidence of the spaceship and five spacemen who could be studied and seen to be certainly similar to humans on this planet, if not identical. The American authorities have known this for years but of course the evidence — the vehicle and its occupants, because they were really etheric — disintegrated quickly back into the etheric. However, autopsies were carried out on the bodies and there is a film of this, so we have major evidence that this whole UFO question is real. p. 133
  • What we call the “Space Brothers”, the people who use the vehicles we call UFOs... have put around our planet a ring of light which keeps it on its axis... this ring allows it, within karmic limits, to be held so that the poles do not flip, which is predicted by many ‘prophets of doom’... Nothing can shift that ring of light which is put in place by our Space Brothers. Without their help this planet would probably be in chaos. One of the major activities of the Space Brothers is to neutralize the pollution with which we are destroying our planet — caused in the main by nuclear radiation which is pouring out from the nuclear powerhouses all over the world. p. 134
  • The planet is already polluted to a degree which is now dangerous. Pollution is the greatest killer of all diseases of humanity, and much of it is of nuclear radiation. The advice of Maitreya and the Masters will be to close down immediately all nuclear-fission power stations in the world. They could be replaced tomorrow with a safe, fusion process of nuclear power as an interim measure before the coming Technology of Light. One of the main factors in maintaining our eco-system is our Space Brothers: we owe them an enormous debt.
  • There are various tales in magazines and newspapers of people being taken up, experimented on, and things being inserted under their skin and so on. All of this is totally untrue. There is not a single instance of such happenings. All of these stories are the result either of the fevered astral imagination of people who want to feel these things and do so in an astral sense, which they then describe to others and so build up a climate; or work of certain negative forces in the world whose aim is to keep from the public the reality of the extra-terrestrial connection of this planet.
  • All the planets at Hierarchic level are interconnected and are all in communication. This solar system acts as a unit — it is not one planet and a whole lot of dead planets. They are all teeming with life at different stages. We are at a midway stage; Venus is unbelievably evolved compared with this planet, as is Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn and various other planets. They have no need to carry out experiments on us; they know. p. 135
  • They create the crop circles as a means of letting us know, obliquely, that they are here — that the Space Brothers are real. Only they could simultaneously, in fields all over the south of England, in a few seconds, create unbelievably complex and beautiful crop circles. p. 135
  • The Space Brothers, who use the UFOs, perform their task of salvage, which is their real work on this planet, in a way which does not infringe our free will. They leave tangential proof of their presence. They create the crop circles, for example, in corn, which is seasonal and after a time is cut down. Governmental officials bribe farmers to cut the corn as soon as the circles appear. This is happening all over the world: there is a huge international conspiracy against the revelation of the true nature of the UFO phenomenon. p. 137
  • The Space Brothers — in particular the Martians with their advanced technology — have placed this ring of cosmic light around our planet, which holds the Earth in its axis, intact. The Martians have the ability to use light like that because they have not made our mistakes. p. 235

Before Disclosure: Dispelling the Fog of Speculation, by Gerard Aartsen (2016) edit

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  • Untangling facts from disinformation. With speculation in the field of Ufology and exopolitics increasing exponentially by the year, or so it seems, and the craft visiting from outer space making their presence felt more visibly by the day, let us not waste any time acknowledging the proverbial elephant (or mothership) in the room: If the modern world was unaware of the space visitors and their intentions before the 1950s contactees began to write and speak about their experiences, why are researchers today ignoring their information and do we allow our perception to be obscured by the disinformation that was meant to discredit them?
  • If we go back to the spate of contacts that inaugurated the modern age of Ufology in the early 1950s, the one outstanding fact is that none of the contactees, whose accounts were not contaminated by the disinformation campaign, had anything but positive experiences to share. The message they were asked to convey, even if just a few short years after the end of World War II and under the palpable threat of nuclear war, was one of empowerment for the human race: We must avoid further armed conflict if we are to prevent self-annihilation, and it is feasible to create a peaceful future through international co-operation and making sure everyone’s basic needs are met, as an expression of the oneness of humanity.
  • However, being engaged in a nuclear and conventional arms race with the Soviet Union, the Western industrial-military complex, which includes the fossil and nuclear fuel industry, felt this message was not in their interest. So much so, that governments and their military who needed the public’s support for their ideological warfare and global arms race, decided in the mid-1950s that, despite the cover-up of the army’s salvaging of one or more crashed flying saucers, the contactees’ message of international co-operation for peace and brotherhood was being too well received. An indication of this popularity can be found in the fact that, within three years of its publication Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), the book which included George Adamski’s initial contact experience, was reprinted twelve times in the US alone and published in seven (!) other languages.
  • We should be very careful about embracing any information involving extraterrestrial visitors or technology that reaches us via ‘government insiders’ or ‘whistle blowers’ who may or may not have worked at secret laboratories, for the simple fact that we can never be certain whether their information wasn’t deliberately planted to feed or increase the public’s fear and confusion. Many of the ‘secret space programme’ (SSP) claims, for instance, coming from ‘whistle blowers’, seem to rest on a statement allegedly made by the late Lockheed Skunk Works engineer Ben Rich: “We now have the technology to take ET home.” But military aviation historian Peter Merlin, who attended many of his talks, explains that this statement was merely misconstrued from a successful tagline which Mr Rich used at the end of his talks since 1983: “The Skunk Works has been assigned the task of getting [the movie character] E.T. back home.” (Peter R. Merlin (2013), ‘Taking ET home: The birth of a modern myth’. SUNlite, Shedding some light on UFOlogy and UFOs Vol.5, No.6, November-December, pp.17-19)
  • Given these circumstances, claims of ‘secret space programmes’ that involve humanity’s power elite roaming the solar system with the help of “off-world allies” cannot be scrutinized for accuracy, and are only corroborated by fellow ‘whistleblowers’ whose backgrounds are equally unclear and whose sources cannot be scrutinized either.
  • Because attempts to silence these harbingers of a different, saner way of life with offers of money or intimidation did not bring the desired effects, it was decided to discredit their experiences and defame their character. At the same time, film makers were enlisted to seed confusion in the public mind with features such as Invaders from Mars (1953), Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), et cetera. So obvious was this effort that Flying Saucer Review eventually published a ‘Special Editorial’ in its issue of March-April 1959 stating: “We abhor this trend to condition world opinion through films and other media to fear the space ships.” (Special Editorial, ‘Why This Horror From Space Trend?’. Flying Saucer Review, Vol.5, No.2, March-April 1959, p.15)
  • As I indicated in the explication of the research method I use for my work, there are at least four plausible explanations for ‘abduction’ experiences: (1) when people adopt the prevailing terminology – ‘abduction’ – for what is basically a consensual contact experience, even if the strangeness of the memories induced feelings of fear e.g. Travis Walton no longer refers to his contact experience as an ‘abduction’ but as “an ambulance call” (‘Travis Walton shares new theory on Fire in the Sky alien abduction’. Open Minds TV, 2 July 2012) (2) when secretive government or military agencies stage a hypnosisor drug induced experience intended to confuse and mislead the public about the true nature of the extraterrestrial presence; or when sensitive people either (3) have an overactive imagination, or (4) tap into the thoughtform that has built up around this phenomenon, and convince themselves it happened to them, just as dreams are real at the time of the dreaming. (Priorities for a Planet in Transition, Gerard Aartsen, 2015) pp.172-74;)
  • In order to decide if information can be trusted to reflect some level of truth or reality beyond strictly subjective experiences, we only need to see if it finds confirmation from several angles, or at least more than one, from people across time, disciplines and/ or social strata. This is essential in a field like Ufology, because tangible proof will be impossible until the time of open contact. After all, as a result of the disinformation campaign that has been going on for decades, even ‘disclosure’ by governments or their agencies will have to be subject to doubt simply because they depend on public support for their (geo) political agendas. Readers will note that our approach, therefore, is not a case of looking for confirmation of set beliefs to the exclusion of contradictory evidence, but rather a tool to eliminate disinformation, misinformation, and speculation.

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